How to force Chrome use the built-in Flash Player

Fernando Carvalho

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Apr 29, 2012, 10:20:42 AM4/29/12

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I had downloaded Google Chrome Version 19.0.1084.36 beta (Ubuntu 12.04 64bits) and I want to know how to force Chrome use the built-in Flash Player.
When I go to chrome://plugins/ it shows me the following info about Flash:

Flash - Version: 11.2 r202
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
Name: Shockwave Flash
Version: 11.2 r202
Location: /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so

That location is the same of the plugin that Firefox is using.

Where is the built-in Flash Plugin?

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André Costa

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Jun 9, 2012, 9:01:20 AM6/9/12

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Same here with 19.0.1084.56 stable (release notes states it comes with Flash 11.3) on Fedora 17 x86_64. Since 11.2 will be the last Flash version officially supported by Adobe and further versions will only come bundled with Chrome, I am very interested in using Chrome's own Flash.

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Andre

Pavel Ivanov

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Jun 9, 2012, 5:53:14 PM6/9/12

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I'd bet you have Chromium, not Chrome. What is written on your
chrome://chrome/ page?

Pavel

André Costa

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Jun 9, 2012, 6:17:07 PM6/9/12

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On Saturday, June 9, 2012 6:53:14 PM UTC-3, Pavel Ivanov wrote:

Not really, I do have Chrome installed (RPM google-chrome-stable from Google, "About" page says "Google Chrome").

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Andre

André Costa

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Jun 9, 2012, 6:23:40 PM6/9/12

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More precisely, the chrome://version page (I didn't know this page, just found it by accident) shows this:

Google Chrome	19.0.1084.56 (Official Build 140965)
OS	Linux
WebKit	536.5 (@119244)
JavaScript	V8 3.9.24.29
Flash	11.2 r202
User Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.56 Safari/536.5
Command Line	/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end
Executable Path	/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
Profile Path	/home/costa/.config/google-chrome/Default

Torne (Richard Coles)

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Jun 10, 2012, 5:46:25 AM6/10/12

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The 64-bit version of Chrome doesn't have flash bundled (until version 20, the current beta, which has the PPAPI version of flash included.)

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Andre Costa

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Jun 10, 2012, 10:30:19 AM6/10/12

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Thks for the clarification. This should be more explicit on the release notes IMHO.

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